Fence for Milford’s Merwin Point gets OK

Updated 7:02 pm, Wednesday, March 9, 2016

108 Beach Ave., seen here to the upper left, stands across the street from Merwin Point in the Woodmont section of Milford, Conn. March 1, 2016. Merwin Point, thought for generatons to belong to the City of Milford, actually belongs to the owner of 108 Beach Ave. A 3-foot high fence with one no trespassing sign was approved by the Zoning Board of Appeals less

108 Beach Ave., seen here to the upper left, stands across the street from Merwin Point in the Woodmont section of Milford, Conn. March 1, 2016. Merwin Point, thought for generatons to belong to the City of ... more

MILFORD — A strikingly attractive outcrop of rock along the shoreline, considered by many to be a public park of sorts, is, in fact, private property, the Zoning Board of Appeals ruled this week.

The rocks, known as Merwin Point, along Beach Avenue in the city’s Woodmont Borough, will soon be delineated by a 3-foot fence and a “no trespassing” sign.

“He can put the fence up today if he wants,” said Woodmont Borough Warden Edward W. Bonessi Jr. “And the whole idea behind all of this is to have the police recognize that the property on the other side of the sidewalk is private property.”